"England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'"
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"I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football."
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"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
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"Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses."
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"Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town."
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"It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes."
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"Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all."
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"The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal."
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"I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team."
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"One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football."
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"What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable."
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"Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire."
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"They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing."
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"Here's a twenty, bury two."
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"When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute."
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"If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does."
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"But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty"
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"Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'"
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"With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table."
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"That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena."
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